Senior Analyst, Assortment

🕒 September 11

🦌 Connecticut, Illinois, +3 more states – Remote

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💵 $80k - $100k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧐 Analyst

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Bob's Discount Furniture

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1991

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

🛒 Retail

Manufacturing • Logistics • Retail

Bob's Discount Furniture is a retail furniture store offering a wide range of home furnishings and accessories at affordable prices. They provide an efficient shopping experience through their online platform, where customers can browse and purchase various furniture pieces. The company places a strong emphasis on customer privacy and the use of technologies to enhance website functionality and personalization. They comply with privacy laws like the CCPA and offer options for customers to manage their data preferences. Their business model includes leveraging performance and marketing technologies to improve user experience and offer relevant advertisements.

📋 Description

• Own, design, and continuously improve SKU- and category-level assortment productivity reporting • Establish definitions and data lineage used for assortment planning • Lead rationalization analysis for tail SKU exit, consolidation, and transition • Quantify sales, margin, and productivity impacts and present recommendations to Merchant and Planning leadership • Build and maintain depth and breadth methodology models, including price point coverage and good-better-best architecture • Lead market, consumer, and competitive analysis to identify assortment gaps and size whitespace opportunities • Define methodology, assumptions, and QA standards across assortment analytics • Review junior analysts’ work for accuracy and rigor • Build and own pre- and post-launch performance scorecards • Diagnose forecast variance and translate findings into forward-looking assumptions • Lead item transition and end-of-life analysis • Partner with Demand Planning to refine new item forecast methodology • Produce executive-ready assortment reporting on an established cadence • Advise Merchants and Planners for assigned categories and challenge assumptions using data • Scope and deliver complex ad hoc analysis for in-season decisions and line review preparation • Automate recurring analysis and develop scalable self-service reporting tools • Provide technical guidance to less experienced analysts • Deliver assortment productivity reporting, rationalization analysis, new item forecasting, and post-launch scorecarding that influence assortment decisions

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Analytics, Statistics, or a related field • 4–7 years of analytical experience, with demonstrated depth in retail merchandising, planning, or analytics • Advanced Excel skills, including multi-variable modeling, large dataset handling, and building tools other people rely on • Proficiency in SQL, including the ability to independently source, join, and validate data across systems • Demonstrated ability to work independently in ambiguous situations and structure analysis without direction • Strong communication and storytelling skills, with experience presenting analysis and recommendations to senior leadership • Experience mentoring analysts or reviewing analytical work for quality • Preferred: Proficiency in Power BI, Tableau, or comparable visualization tools, including dashboard design • Preferred: Furniture, home, or big-ticket retail experience • Preferred: Hands-on experience with assortment planning or demand planning systems (e.g., Logility, o9, Blue Yonder) • Preferred: Exposure to Python, R, or comparable tooling for advanced analysis

🏖️ Benefits

• Nationally provided Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance • Paid Vacation, Personal Days, Sick Days, Holidays, work anniversary and your Birthday • 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan with a Generous Company match • Pet Insurance • Employer-paid basic Life Insurance, with the option to add Voluntary Life Insurance • Financial Planning • Voluntary Legal Benefits • Wellness Plans • Generous Employee Discount starting on your 1st day • Additional Employee Discounts through the “Hays Perks discount program” • Professional Development: In-person, virtually and an infinite library of on-demand classes in Workday Learning • Tuition Reimbursement • BDF Education Foundation Scholarship Program open to employees and their dependents • Robust succession planning and opportunities to advance careers • Fun team-oriented work environment • Career growth opportunities